L. Christiansen - Storming the Barricades

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21 Jan 07

RahimK

Edmonton, Alberta

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22 Jan 07

Originally posted by HomerJSimpson
His entire book is like that, he just shows some game with attacking and annotates, I was quite dissapointed.

I found it hard to read, but that was say 3-4 years ago and i'm not into those books loaded with variations. I prefer words and easy going books.

HomerJSimpson

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22 Jan 07

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Yeah thats because the book is sparcely annotated. This book is nothing special and it wont stand the test of time, I even liked John Nunn's attacking section in understand chess move by move better, Nunn even summarizes all the main points at the end, and says why these themes are important. This book is very ordinary, and complete lacks any sort of attacking themes, its like annotated game collection, imo, nd not a very good one at that.

RahimK

Edmonton, Alberta

Joined: 25 Nov 04
Moves: 2101

22 Jan 07

Originally posted by HomerJSimpson
Yeah thats because the book is sparcely annotated. This book is nothing special and it wont stand the test of time, I even liked John Nunn's attacking section in understand chess move by move better, Nunn even summarizes all the main points at the end, and says why these themes are important. This book is very ordinary, and complete lacks any sort of attacking themes, its like annotated game collection, imo, nd not a very good one at that.

I didn't like Nunn's book either. I had a brief look at some of the pages. Nunn's book is advanced though compared to logical chess, chess-the art of logical thinking.

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22 Jan 07

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